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'''The Kolbrin Bible''', affectionately called '''The Kolbrin''' by its fans, is a collection of texts alleged to be the translation of an ancient manuscript. [[UFO]], [[Planet X]]/[[Niburu]] and [[2012 apocalypse]] enthusiasts are fond of it.
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'''The Kolbrin Bible''', affectionately called '''The Kolbrin''' by its fans, is a collection of texts alleged to be the translation of an ancient manuscript. [[UFO]], [[Planet X]]/[[Niburu]] and [[2012 apocalypse]] enthusiasts are fond of it. It was promoted in North America during 2005 on late night radio.
  
 
The "book" is virtually unknown to mainstream historians. No hard copy of the purported original is presented or known.
 
The "book" is virtually unknown to mainstream historians. No hard copy of the purported original is presented or known.
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*''The Kolbrin Bible'', 2005, Your Own World Books, ISBN 1597720054
 
*''The Kolbrin Bible'', 2005, Your Own World Books, ISBN 1597720054
  
==Claims and analysis==
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==Other sightings==
 
The first mention of this text is apparently in James McCanney's ''Atlantis to Tesla - The Kolbrin Connection'', a self-published work which he put out in 2003.<ref name="jmc.2003">[http://web.archive.org/web/20030724060852/http://jmccanneyscience.com/ jmccanneyscience.com home page: July 24, 2003] (Internet Archive)</ref>. McCanney is, among other pseudoscientific interests, a proponent of Nibiru collision apocalyptic theories. An early edition of Masters' version specifically lists several passages from "The Book of Manuscripts" (the fifth section of the text) in support of these claims. The text also attempts to support [[British Israelism]] as well as providing apocryphal teachings of Jesus.
 
The first mention of this text is apparently in James McCanney's ''Atlantis to Tesla - The Kolbrin Connection'', a self-published work which he put out in 2003.<ref name="jmc.2003">[http://web.archive.org/web/20030724060852/http://jmccanneyscience.com/ jmccanneyscience.com home page: July 24, 2003] (Internet Archive)</ref>. McCanney is, among other pseudoscientific interests, a proponent of Nibiru collision apocalyptic theories. An early edition of Masters' version specifically lists several passages from "The Book of Manuscripts" (the fifth section of the text) in support of these claims. The text also attempts to support [[British Israelism]] as well as providing apocryphal teachings of Jesus.
  
 
Whether this was the intent of writing the text is again unclear. The text has received nearly no critical attention, but sites outside the pseudoscientific/new religion realm point to its lack of provenance and dubious history<ref>e.g. [http://www.crystalinks.com/kolbrin.html The Kolbrin Bible] (crystallinks.com)</ref> and suggest that it is a hoax or at least apocryphal. One critic suggests Glenn Kimball as a possible author;<ref>[http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=400 Q&A — The Kolbrin "Bible"] (Paul Hughes, apologetics.com)</ref> in 2006 Kimball published an article on the Kolbrin texts and was associated with Masters's edition of the text.<ref>[http://www.ufodigest.com/kolbrin.html The Kolbrin Bible] (Glenn Kimball, July 12, 2006; ufodigest.com)</ref>
 
Whether this was the intent of writing the text is again unclear. The text has received nearly no critical attention, but sites outside the pseudoscientific/new religion realm point to its lack of provenance and dubious history<ref>e.g. [http://www.crystalinks.com/kolbrin.html The Kolbrin Bible] (crystallinks.com)</ref> and suggest that it is a hoax or at least apocryphal. One critic suggests Glenn Kimball as a possible author;<ref>[http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=400 Q&A — The Kolbrin "Bible"] (Paul Hughes, apologetics.com)</ref> in 2006 Kimball published an article on the Kolbrin texts and was associated with Masters's edition of the text.<ref>[http://www.ufodigest.com/kolbrin.html The Kolbrin Bible] (Glenn Kimball, July 12, 2006; ufodigest.com)</ref>
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The [[Barddas]] of Iolo Morganwg (published in 1862) repeatedly mentions a book of Bardic Wisdom named the "Coelbren."<ref>http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/bim1/bim1018.htm</ref> However, this does not bolster the proposed antiquity of the Kolbrin, as the Barddas itself is of questionable authority. The author of the Barddas, [[Iolo Morganwg]], was a 18th century Druid enthusiast who incorporated fragments of authentic Druidic and Bardic lore with material of his own invention. (Morganwg was also a known forger and an opium addict). It may be that the author of the Kolbrin borrowed this title from the Barddas. None of the material in the Barddas cited as being from the Coelbren corresponds to anything in the Kolbrin, nor does Morganwg's backstory for the Coelbren correspond to that of the Kolbrin.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 23:54, 19 November 2011

The Kolbrin Bible, affectionately called The Kolbrin by its fans, is a collection of texts alleged to be the translation of an ancient manuscript. UFO, Planet X/Niburu and 2012 apocalypse enthusiasts are fond of it. It was promoted in North America during 2005 on late night radio.

The "book" is virtually unknown to mainstream historians. No hard copy of the purported original is presented or known.

It has been attempted at least three times to create an articles about the Kolbrin Bible on Wikipedia,[1] but every time it has been deleted due to the lack of reliable sources.[2]

Contents

Structure

The Kolbrin Bible comprises eleven books. The first six books are said to have been scribed by Egyptian writers shortly after the exodus, and is called the "Bronzebook". The last five books are collectively called "Coelbook" or "Kailedy" and are said be authored by Celtic priests written around the time that the New Testament was being created.

Claimed history

These texts are claimed to have been kept at Glastonbury Abbey and the first section transcribed to bronze sheets, allowing them to survive the fire of 1184, which the text's publishers allege was set to destroy these and other heretical texts.

The texts are then alleged to have been transmitted through a series of owners, including one John Culdy in the early 1300s, eventually being entrusted to "a small religious group in England" and thence to the Hope Trust, "of which little is known." Finally the texts are claimed to have ended up in the hands of the Culdian Trust, formed in 1980; they claim that the current version of the text was produced by "an elderly man from the Hope Trust" around 1992, working from the original texts.

No old manuscript or evidence of literary or scholarly references to it are available. In particular, the publishers not only have no manuscript to exhibit, but no ownership provenance other than vague allusions to an unamed religious group and a fictional medieval cult called the Culdians (playing on the name of the real but obscure Celtic Christian monks the Culdees). The foreword states that the text "has been adequately validated and endorsed by Higher Authorities" without naming them. The introduction then adds, "Undoubtedly, additional material has been incorporated with good intent, to fill gaps and elaborate on the original", and further that "No claim is made regarding historical accuracy", but that its origin is unimportant.

Available editions

At present three editions of the material are available. A hardbound edition is published in association with the Culdian Trust in two volumes, titled The Kolbrin and The Gospel of the Kailedy; the same group also presents an online edition.[3] A softcover edition is published by Your Own World Books, ostensibly edited by one Janice Manning and with versification by Marshall Masters.

The connections between the various versions are obscure. The website www.kolbrin.com first appears in the Internet Archive in 2004; the first reference on that site to the Culdian Trust does not appear until October of that year; the Culdian Trust website doesn't appear until February 2005.[4][5] Given the 2005 publication date of the Manning/Masters edition, it might be presumed that it is derived from the other edition.

Other sightings

The first mention of this text is apparently in James McCanney's Atlantis to Tesla - The Kolbrin Connection, a self-published work which he put out in 2003.[6]. McCanney is, among other pseudoscientific interests, a proponent of Nibiru collision apocalyptic theories. An early edition of Masters' version specifically lists several passages from "The Book of Manuscripts" (the fifth section of the text) in support of these claims. The text also attempts to support British Israelism as well as providing apocryphal teachings of Jesus.

Whether this was the intent of writing the text is again unclear. The text has received nearly no critical attention, but sites outside the pseudoscientific/new religion realm point to its lack of provenance and dubious history[7] and suggest that it is a hoax or at least apocryphal. One critic suggests Glenn Kimball as a possible author;[8] in 2006 Kimball published an article on the Kolbrin texts and was associated with Masters's edition of the text.[9]

The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg (published in 1862) repeatedly mentions a book of Bardic Wisdom named the "Coelbren."[10] However, this does not bolster the proposed antiquity of the Kolbrin, as the Barddas itself is of questionable authority. The author of the Barddas, Iolo Morganwg, was a 18th century Druid enthusiast who incorporated fragments of authentic Druidic and Bardic lore with material of his own invention. (Morganwg was also a known forger and an opium addict). It may be that the author of the Kolbrin borrowed this title from the Barddas. None of the material in the Barddas cited as being from the Coelbren corresponds to anything in the Kolbrin, nor does Morganwg's backstory for the Coelbren correspond to that of the Kolbrin.

See also

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